Indian Education system is just based on bookish knowledge. Even parents wants their children to grab all the knowledge and to come first in the class. It is due to the rising competition and every parents wants their children to study in the best institutes. This has lead to decline in creativity and innovation in students. Moreover, the Indian education system also does not encourage creativity and is only focused on textbook education. What are your views? Does indian education encourage creativity?
Indian Education is based on theoretical knowledge and not practical knowledge. It does not encourage creativity rather the competition is based on gaining marks and not knowledge. Moreover subjects like fine arts, dance and music are not encouraged in schools and colleges and even if the educational institutes offer such courses, very few students opt for it because it does not have any such scope for employment. In my view, creativity should be encouraged as this will lead to intellectual growth and not remain as textbook bugs and have no knowledge outside it.
It is a shame on the part of Indian Educational system, which has failed in nurturing the creativity in the small minds. Here, everything is decided by the mere secured marks in some examinations. Creativity is an idea which cannot be graded upon. It can only be enhanced with constant support. But for having a support for a particular idea, it has to recognized first. Our educational system has never laid emphasis on the capability and ability of students rather on the marks and grades. These marks are something which actually decide what should be your future. Individual’s choice is diminished under these marks. With due course of time, the ability of thinking, creativity among children have deteriorated to a great extent; all they know is the “bookish knowledge” not the “actual knowledge”.
Creativity is a form of intelligence, but it is not the form usually assessed by tests and grades. Furthermore, a person who is an expert or even a creative genius in one domain, such as composing music, may not be particularly creative in another domain, and schools tend to focus on verbal/linguistic and logical/mathematical domains to the virtual exclusion of other areas. Nevertheless, teachers may assume that students who receive the highest grades are automatically the most creative students in their classes. its really embarrassing that students are not encouraged enough to persue their creativity rather they are asked to focus on only studies and studies.
Indian education system definitely lacks encouragement of creativity because of its archaic nature. We have produced the best in science field and have contributed over the world but what happens at the grass root level still remains a big loss to the society at large. Indians are educated for grades. From an early age we are made to run the race for success instead of learning. We fear exams while it should have been fun. The idea that we need to compete to be extraordinary is in the process sabotaging children's ability to think beyond textbooks.
